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HoP 076 - R.J. Hankinson on Galen

History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps

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Is the Soul Dependent on the Mixtures of the Body?

Gannon's idea is that what the soul does somehow depends on the body. For example, when people get drunk, you can see that it affects their psychological capacities. And also more generally he thinks that the sort of diet has an effect on how bad tempered you might be. Gannon himself was quite convinced that he had empirical, good empirical grounds for supposing that this was in fact the case.

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